Project Playground is almost here!

I didn't get in as much creating this last weekend as I would have liked. Girl Scout Cookies came and sale day started on Sunday so I had to take Faith out and have her sell some cookies. She is off to a good start thanks to Nathan taking the order form to work and her door-to-door sales of 25 boxes. She has a goal of 160 boxes which she will reach in no time. I did find some time to get a card made and created a new scrapbook project that will be available in February. The card is a mix of miscelleanous paper I had on hand, a retiring stamp set called Treasure Life and a new stamp set called Card Chatter-Birthday.

This scrapbook layout was created from Close to My Heart's Cherish How to book. I am loving using the easy to follow instructions and visuals in the how to book. It was fun working on the placement of all my hearts cut from Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge and my collection of Olive hardware. I used the new paper pack called Florentine. I just fell in love with the colors in this paper pack as soon as I saw it and this layout is by far one of my most recent favorites. Hopefully, you can come by on January 29th 1-4pm to make some cards and pick up the brand new catalog. If not, drop me a line and I can hook you up with a hard copy catalog and a kit to make this scrapbook layout for $15.

Silent Auction for Halloween Carnival

Since I started putting together my scrapbook workshop designs for November/December workshops, I decided to donate a framed scrapbook page for the silent auction at the Halloween Carnival at my son's school. I created this page from the Elemental Level 2 Paper Pack, Classmate Alphabet, Art Philosophy Cartrige, Love Life Stamp Set, Olive ink and brads and a banner dimensional. I love the simplicity of it. I wasn't too sure about the Elemental paper but when it comes together it looks fantastic. Let me know if you agree!

Birthday Card on the Fly...

I have been getting the reminder message on my computer about my Dad's birthday coming up on the 23rd for over a week and kept snoozing it but woke up this morning and thought yeah, I better get to it. So, I called on the Cricut Art Philosophy to help me make a simple and fast birthday card for a male. I used the Celebration stamp set that is one of the 3 sets that comes with your Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge. I pulled out some coordinating paper from the Typeset Paper Pack, grabbed my Bamboo and Chocolate inks and got to cutting.

I made the mistake of cutting my green mat at 2.25" and knew it was too big when I pulled it out. Oh, duh, it should have been 1.75" to go with the 1.5" stamped image I was going to use. Okay, so sleeping last night on the chair wasn't the greatest thanks to my hubbie snoring up a storm. In any case, I thought to myself 'how can I make this work'. I used it and just trimmed off the edges. I used the words 'Fun, Love, Joy' from the Celebration stamp set and placed them all together randomly on a block to create my worded background. Stamped 'Best wishes to you' on the inside and all done in about 15 minutes. Yeah. Now it's time to get ready for work but I will be back playing with some new Close to My Heart stuff that came yesterday!